The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together. Alice Waters More Quotes by Alice Waters More Quotes From Alice Waters This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive. Alice Waters thoughtful hopeful inspire Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment. Alice Waters health food children When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is. Alice Waters cooks ingredients taste I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them. Alice Waters land believe children How we eat can change the world Alice Waters changing-the-world world Cooking creates a sense of well-being for yourself and the people you love and brings beauty and meaning to everyday life. And all it requires is common sense – the common sense to eat seasonally, to know where your food comes from, to support and buy from local farmers and producers who are good stewards of our natural resources. Alice Waters common-sense support people Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education. Alice Waters teaching education kids Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that humans are capable of, but only if we take the time to think about what we're eating. Alice Waters slow-food care thinking The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way. Alice Waters decisions-you-make choices way I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program. Alice Waters lunch real school Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table and pass the peas to the person next to us we see that person in a whole new way. Alice Waters tables humanity giving We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture. Alice Waters agriculture new-relationship children I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture. Alice Waters agriculture helping people Go to the farmers market and buy food there. You'll get something that's delicious. It's discouraging that this seems like such an elitist thing. It's not. It's just that we have to pay the real cost of food. People have to understand that cheap food has been subsidized. We have to realize that it's important to pay farmers up front, because they are taking care of the land. Alice Waters land real people I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary. Alice Waters tomatoes childhood summer To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing. Alice Waters ingredients beautiful way Eating is an environmental act. Alice Waters environmental environment eating I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated. Alice Waters real children school I think Americas food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, its very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that. Alice Waters real children thinking When you're really considering all the qualities of food, purity is right there at the top of the list. I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated. Alice Waters lists quality purity
